01.18.13
Selling it
Google-generated ad content, the low level radioactive waste of the internet.
Ya can’t make it up.
Permalink Comments off
01.17.13
The Insurrectionist (continued)
Hear Ted’s false teeth whistling. Really — don’t take my word for it. He also calls the president a “subhuman mongrel.” Around 5:30, he again implies there will be a revolt against the US government by the people who bought “the most ammunition in history” over the Xmas holiday. As has always been part of this routine, Nugent dances right up the edge of making direct death threats.
Near the end: “[The President] hires, appoints and associates with communists … He is an evil dangerous man who hates America and hates freedom and we need to fix this as soon as possible.”
You see how this works and why the US Secret Service gave Ted a visit. As last April, this latest Nugent blurt comes at another big gun show.
Nugent’s career as a pundit from the extreme right is built on the use of threats, delivered obviously but with always enough implication or weaselly constructions to keep him out of the hands of the law. It is what his like-minded audience demands and what he delivers.
You can contrast this with the stupidity of ranting gun nut James Yeager, now deprived of his carry permit, apologetic and following the advice of a lawyer to appear penitent and civil.
“It not time to start shooting anybody,” he now says.
What’s the difference between Ted Nugent and James Yeager? It’s not a trick question. Yeager was a lot less seasoned in his delivery than Nugent. And not the same magnitude of reactionary celebrity from the right.
Permalink Comments off
Deep inna hart of WhiteManistan
“Not a Terrorist,” reads the T-shirt.
I met Pete Seeger a couple times, both incidences for interviews on American folk music, its history and Woody Guthrie. Seeger was just as you would imagine he was if you ever saw or listened to his performance of “This Land is Your Land.”
I’m sure he’d be be rendered speechless by cheers for a song called “Arm Yourselves,” played in a coffee house.
A colleague tipped me to the venue, Brave New Books. A reading of reviews on Yelp is informative.
Permalink Comments off
01.16.13
The Insurrectionist
Ted Nugent has a long history of dancing right up to the line of threatening members of the current administration and calling for armed revolution. Last year, he earned himself a visit from the US Secret Service for remarks made at the annual NRA convention. The Secret Service investigates those people who either make statements calling for the assassination of the president or, who by their exhortations, may be inspiring others to do so. No charges were filed.
From Media Matters, reporting on Ted Nugent from another right wing talk radio show, today:
We need to turn up the heat and tell our elected officials we want Eric Holder arrested. We want him brought to trial for Fast and Furious. We want Hillary Clinton arrested for defying, denying American citizens the proper and adequate security as the anniversary of 9/11 approaches. We want these people held accountable. We want to know where Barack Obama got the authority to spend like a drunken maniac and blowtorch all these tax dollars following the Cloward-Piven and Saul Alinsky playbook to destroy the last, best quality of life in the world and it’s called the United States of America. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Eric Holder are the enemy of the state. (One week ago, Nugent used his weekly column in the Washington Times to ask Biden to invite him to contribute to the talks on gun control. How’s that for reptilian hypocrisy?)
Yesterday, Nugent was on yet another radio show implying that law enforcement, or retired policemen and ex-soldiers — now in the group called Oath Keepers, would revolt if the US government made moves on gun control.
With Ted Nugent, the insurrectionist cant is part of his business. As a guitar player he tours casinos, dive bars and county fairs during the summer, playing his old tunes from the Seventies arena rock circuit.
While Nugent’s persona might seem like the essence of rebellion, it isn’t. Ted Nugent is anything but a rebel. On the contrary, he is a panderer.
Much of Nugent’s time, outside his summer touring, is spent cultivating his profile as a pundit and celebrity for the extreme right, appearing at Tea Party rallies/dinners or on radio shows, walking the thin line between free speech and denial of the the legitimacy of the current elected government with advocacy for revolt. It’s red meat to the people who pay him for his appearances and columns.
For Nugent it’s a cynical personal style. For if he stopped and adopted a more intelligent, nuanced delivery of less inflamed material, he would lose his audience. And that would mean a good deal of income, too.
Permalink Comments off
WhiteManistan Rock (continued)
Unintentionally (or perhaps subversively, the opposite) hilarious.
“This gives me a freedom erection,” comments someone. “With my finger on the trigger of a loaded shotgun/There for the next time someone decides to come.”
Don’t take our guns. Plus, we’re broke, “so frickin’ broke.” Worth two Bluto Blutarskies.
Disease control in WhiteManistan
Far right talk radio show host Michael Savage:
Asking listeners to put aside his political orientation for a moment, talk-radio host Michael Savage questioned the federal government’s recommendation that citizens get a flu shot. And this is why our leaders, “the mandarins,” may or may not be taking it.
“Did Harry Reid take a flu shot? Did Barack Obama take a flu shot? Did Barack Obama’s lovely family take a flu shot? Did Joe Biden take a flu shot???? Savage asked.
“Which of the mandarins took the flu shot????
“The flu vaccine?,” he asked. “No, I wouldn’t take it.”
“So it’s good to have a cynic in radio who questions authority,” he said.
The insurrectionist taint in WhiteManistan contaminates everything, literally. Savage goes on to try and make the point that you or your children might become autistic or something else if you get a flu shot.
DD got a flu shot yesterday. By CDC reports, this year’s flu season is bad and just beginning to ramp in California.
In 2004, as a result of this, I was asked to be a guest on Savage’s radio show. I declined. He was toxic then. And is much worse now.
In 2009, Britain banned Savage from entry as a “promoter of hate.” Not that he was probably planning on ever going.
The Los Angeles Times paraphrased the reason for the ban as “unacceptable behavior” that inspires “inter-community violence.”
Permalink Comments off
01.15.13
WhiteManistan Rock
Insurrectionist classic rock for threatening to shoot people to. Hitler, Stalin = Obama, memes, present and accounted for. The only thing missing is the Confederate flag, which is more in line with the style than the tri-corner hat.
More of the I’m-from-the-South-so-give-us-an-excuse-to-shoot-you thing.
Gives a nice progressive piano rock flavor to a tribute to the ranting gun nut who just had his license to carry permit revoked by Tennessee.
Permalink Comments off
Insurrectionist Day
You can clearly see the false teeth, which whistle when he talks. Becoming old and malevolent is not a fate one wishes on somebody but he does it with more vigor than anyone I can think of.
Ted Nugent, symbolic leader of the GOP right’s insurrectionist movement, on the administration strategy to achieve some measure of gun control:
“It is psychotic, it is crazy, it’s illogical – I believe it’s clearly and dangerously anti-American, anti-humanity.”
The weekend before he had called gun owners, and himself, like Rosa Parks.
Before the day is up, bank on a load of fresh, hot apoplectic rage from the extremity that’s the breeding ground for the next unhinged mass shooter/domestic terrorist, vowing revenge and armed resistance to om whatever emanates from Joe Biden’s list of suggestions.
You can’t satirize America which sometimes makes me wonder why I did “Suck On My Machine Gun.” It was more out of dismay and futility, I think.
From the wire:
A pro-gun group the ‘Georgia Gun Owners’ announced in a press release on Monday that they were teaming up with Armistead Arms in Alpharetta, Georgia to give away a free AR-15 assault rifle, just like the rifle used to kill 20 children and 6 adults in Newtown, Connecticut last month.
The Georgia Gun Owners said that it would be providing one AR-15 “to alert, activate and mobilize gun owners in every corner of the state to oppose the Feinstein Gun Ban and others being touted in Washington, D.C …
Fresh off a gun raffle of an AR-15 assault weapon, the Asheville Tea Party is now promoting the “First National Gun Appreciation Day??? this Saturday.
“We absolutely refuse to let the other side dominate the converstation,??? said Jane Bilello, chairman of the Asheville Tea Party. “Gun-free zones and gun control don’t work, and the American people get that.???
Because the demand has been so great, Asheville Tea PAC will also be kicking off the Great Gun Give Away Part 2 for a Para TTR and a Sig Sauer hand gun.
Readers recognize that one of the constant notes from the white minority of gun insurrectionists is that of intimidation. The idea is to wave an assault rifle (or to point it) in the face of the many enemies, preferably smaller and of different color or political affiliation, and to have as many pictures displayed, as possible.
“Come and take it so you can get shot,” is the message. And that’s the meaning of the “molon labe” phrase, from the Greek, seen prominently on the flags in the “Suck On My Machine Gun” video.
Permalink Comments off
01.13.13
McAfee (continued)
Now in Portland, John McAfee gave interviews to the Willamette Week. McAfee drips condescension, passed off as an urbane rich man’s wisdom, telling the journalists that to become wealthy all one needs is to become an empty hole through which cash flows as quickly as possible. And that the best lays are ugly girls.
Of course, for the last few decades musical groups have occasionally made tunes about the latter observation, the truth of which readers probably learned … sometime back in junior high.
You can turn the odious into humorous fun for the boys. This is not John McAfee’s forte. He’s just odious.
But the Macc Lads, an English punk rock group that operated from the early Eighties to the early Nineties, had it down.
They have nothing to do with the life of John McAfee. But they were avuncular and honestly depraved in ways more human than he’s capable of. And listening to them made me want to visit Macclesfield.
Sadly, reading of McAfee in the Willamette Week does not engender the same enthusiasm for Mary’s Strip Club in a rundown section of Portland, the equivalent of Erv’s BYOB in old Allentown, or wherever you may be familiar with in ex-urban concrete and cinder block USA.
Thought exercise: What’s the proposed eventual sales value for a graphic novel or telemovie on a man who works overtime being contemptible wherever he goes?
Miss Macclesfield.
Or — God’s Gift to Women — a song John McAfee takes way too far.
John McAfee — Culture of Lickspittle 2012 Man of the Year.
John McAfee with the usual pros.
Permalink Comments off
01.11.13
Living Like John McAfee
Unsurprisingly, the first place ex-anti-virus king John McAfee apparently goes when he hits town is the local naked floozie-watching dive.
Willamette Week, an altie weekly in Portland, reports McAfee is now there, espied at Mary’s Strip Club, posing for pictures with the local fauna.
The guy who’s going to write the famous John McAfee graphic novel, Chad Essley, is still a hanger on. But the millionaire’s Alex Jones interview about Hezbollah using Belize and Nicaragua to pump ricin powder into the US did not survive the news cycle, killed by his interviewer’s now infamous appearance on CNN during the Orange Bowl.
Meet the new whores, same as the old whores.
Next up: Belize said to be buying ballistic missiles from Iran, discovered on laptops given to officials by John McAfee’s ring of sixteen and seventeen year-old Mata-Haris.
Permalink Comments off
« Previous Page — « Previous entries « Previous Page · Next Page » Next entries » — Next Page »